ASL-202 American Sign Language IV

This course is the fourth in a series of courses designed to advance the skills and knowledge needed to communicate in American Sign Language. ASL 202 develops a novice-high to intermediate range of communication skills with the ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas in ASL on a variety of topics. This course emphasizes articulating the cultural practices and products distinct to those that approach the world from a visual perspective. Topics include: analysis of a linguistic, political, or social issue; examination of products of Deaf culture; and, exploration of career pathways. This course carries SUNY General Education World Language credit.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ASL-201 or Requisite Experience

Lecture Contact Hours

3

Lab Contact Hours

0

Other Contact Hours

0

Department

• Humanities

Grading Scheme

• Letter

SUNY Gen Ed Credit

• Yes

Semesters Course Will Be Offered

• Spring

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Employ a novice-high to intermediate range of communication skills: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational with the ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas in ASL on a variety of topics.
2. Critique product(s) of Deaf culture; such as, literature in a variety of genres: poetry, stories, folktales, jokes, and art. Products may include videophones, alerting devices, and video logs (vlogs).
3. Select a topic that is of personal interest; and, compose one's own or appraise others: artwork, poetry, video, etc.
4. Select a linguistic, political, or social issue relevant to Deaf people and compare to one's own (or) the majority culture.
5. Investigate pathways to careers involving ASL or pathway to one's own career.

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ASL 202: American Sign Language IV

Department

Humanities

Course Description

This course is the fourth in a series of courses designed to advance the skills and knowledge needed to communicate in American Sign Language. ASL 202 develops a novice-high to intermediate range of communication skills with the ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas in ASL on a variety of topics. This course emphasizes articulating the cultural practices and products distinct to those that approach the world from a visual perspective. Topics include: analysis of a linguistic, political, or social issue; examination of products of Deaf culture; and, exploration of career pathways. This course carries SUNY General Education World Language credit.

Credit Hours

3

Contact Hours

Lecture	3
Lab	0
Other	0

Grading Scheme

Letter

Semester(s) Course Will Be Offered

Spring

Prerequisites

ASL-201 or Requisite Experience

SUNY General Education Course

• World Languages

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Employ a novice-high to intermediate range of communication skills: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational with the ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas in ASL on a variety of topics.
2. Critique product(s) of Deaf culture; such as, literature in a variety of genres: poetry, stories, folktales, jokes, and art. Products may include videophones, alerting devices, and video logs (vlogs).
3. Select a topic that is of personal interest; and, compose one's own or appraise others: artwork, poetry, video, etc.
4. Select a linguistic, political, or social issue relevant to Deaf people and compare to one's own (or) the majority culture.
5. Investigate pathways to careers involving ASL or pathway to one's own career.

Topic Outline

1. Communication: ASL with ability to convey information, concepts, and ideas on a variety of topics 
   1. Complex statements: conditionals,  when clauses, conjunctions , topicalization, and rhetorical.
   2. Non-manual markers: grammatical, emotive, size, shape, relative distance, temporal (repeated/continual) and degree (with attention/careless, etc.)
   3. Classifiers: semantic, descriptive, locative, instrumental, body and body-part, environmental and plural
   4. Functional structures: contrastive structure, spatial agreement, role-shifting, ranking/listing, real world orientation
   5. Advancing expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills to include lexicalized fingerspelling
   6. Maintain interaction in full-immersion signing environment
2. Cultures 
   1. Examination of Deaf literature: art, poetry, storytelling, folktales, jokes and/or technology, such as: videophones, Glide, alerting devices, VLOGS
3. Connections 
   1. Select a topic that is of personal interest; and, compose one’s own or appraise others’ art work, poetry, video, etc.
4. Comparisons 
   1. Analyze a linguistic, political, or social issue, relevant to deaf people and compare to one’s own culture and community 
      1. Language status of ASL here in the US and other countries
      2. Agencies (NAD, ASLTA, RID, LEAD-K)
      3. Civil rights (law, hospital, military, work place, etc.)
5. Communities
   1. Explore and articulate pathways to careers involving ASL or pathway to one’s own chosen career 
      1. Transferring institutions
      2. Length and depth of study
      3. Pros and cons